The Adventure of English

Season 1 Episode 5: English in America

Following the English language on its journey overseas and tracing the story of how the language of the British Isles became a language for the world - the most widely spoken and understood vernacular in history. In America the language of a small group of seventeenth-century English immigrants only survived through the most unlikely coincidence – but America was to develop a vigorous new vocabulary, and to spread it around the globe.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

8

Cast:

Melvyn Bragg

Quality:

HD

Duration:

65 min

First Air:

2003

Rating:

8.6